I Bought My Parents a $425,000 Beach House and Came Back to Find It Taken Over

back: Don’t sign anything. Don’t agree to anything. Love you.

Then I drove.

Four hours down the coast after a brutal case, with fatigue sitting on me like a second body. I rehearsed calm sentences in my head the whole way, the way I rehearse before a difficult conversation with a patient’s family. We’ll reset this. We’ll breathe. We’ll set clear expectations.continue reading …